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Untitled-1 1 Contents Highlights New Acquisitions Non Fiction Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing Fiction Recently Published Picador Contacts Sophie Brewer, Associate Publisher: [email protected] Jon Mitchell, Rights Director: [email protected] Anna Shora, Senior Rights Manager: [email protected] Mairéad Loftus, Rights Executive: [email protected] Aisling Brennan, Rights Assistant: [email protected] Sub-Agents Brazil – Tassy Barham Baltic states – ANA Baltic Bulgaria and Serbia – ANA Sofia *China – ANA Beijing *China – Peony Literary Agency Czech & Slovak Reps – ANA Prague Greece – J.L.M. Agency Hungary & Croatia – ANA Budapest Israel – The Deborah Harris Agency *Japan – The English Agency *Japan – Tuttle-Mori *Japan – Japan Uni Korea – Eric Yang Agency Romania – Simona Kessler Russia – ANA Moscow *Taiwan – ANA Taipei *Taiwan – Peony Literary Agency Turkey – Anatolia Lit * Non-exclusive agent Highlights Lily's Promise How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live Lily Ebert and Dov Forman The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world in 2020. A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming story that demonstrates the power of love to see us through the darkest of times. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI in 2020, 96-year-old Lily found herself making headlines around the world. Lily had promised herself that if she survived Auschwitz she would tell everyone the truth about the camp. Now was her chance. In Lily’s Promise she writes movingly about her happy childhood in Hungary, the death of her mother and two youngest siblings on their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944 and her determination to keep her two other sisters safe. Publication Date: 2/9/2021 She describes the inhumanity of the camp and the small acts of defiance that Price: £16.99 gave her strength. From there she and her sisters became slave labour in a ISBN: 9781529073409 munitions factory, and then faced a death march that they barely survived. Binding: Hardback Format: Royal Lily lost so much, but she built a new life for herself and her family, first in Extent: 288pp Israel and then in London. It wasn’t easy; the pain of her past was always Rights: World with her, but this extraordinary woman found the strength to speak out in the hope that such evil would never happen again. Material Available: Spring Rights Sold Lily Ebert lives in London, near her large and loving family which includes Italian: Newton Compton thirty-four great-grandchildren. She is a founder member of the Holocaust Survivors Centre and in 2015 was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Holocaust education. Dov Forman is Lily's great-grandson. At the age of sixteen he was separated from her during the pandemic, for the first time, and became determined to record her story for posterity. Heartsick Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between Jessie Stephens ‘Thought-provoking, highly original and beautifully nuanced. Jessie Stephens’ journalistic skill shines as she weaves together true stories with a narrative as compelling as any novel.’ Jane Harper 'Heartbreak does not seem to be a brand of grief we respect. And so we are left in the middle of the ocean, floating in a dinghy with no anchor, while the world waits for us to be okay again.' Claire has returned from London to the dust and familiarity of her childhood home, only to realise something is wrong with her partner Maggie. Patrick is a lonely uni student, until he meets Caitlin - but does she feel as connected as he does? Ana is happily married with three children. Then, one night, she falls in love with someone else. Based on three true stories, Heartsick is a compelling narrative nonfiction account of the many lows and occasional surprising highs of heartbreak. Bruising, beautiful, achingly specific but wholeheartedly universal, it reminds Publication Date: 20/01/2022 us that emotional pain can make us as it breaks us, and that storytelling has ISBN: 9781760981549 the ultimate healing power. Binding: Hardback Format: Royal Praise for Heartsick Extent: 336pp Rights: Translation ‘A remarkable longform journalism exploration of the human heart and how it breaks. Original, meticulous, marvellous.’ Trent Dalton Originally published by Pan Macmillan Australia 'Full of empathy and grippingly told, this is a book for anyone who has suffered a broken heart. Jessie Stephens perfectly captures the thrill of love, as well as the agony that sometimes follows. You'll care desperately for all these people, in all their damage and hope.' Richard Glover 'This book is a delight. Stephens has written a compulsive, utterly endearing thing about that most human of struggles: heartache. It is Sally Rooney's Normal People meets Louis Theroux. What Heartsick does for us all, because its core is universal, is reveal the true nature of love in astonishing detail. The precision will grip you. Stephens shows us, too, that we are not alone. And that is a gift.' Rick Morton ‘In its pages, Heartsick delivers what every broken-hearted person needs, the ability to see themselves in others who have walked this path before them. With this book, Jessie Stephens has just established herself as a major player in the Australian literary scene. A stunning debut.' Sally Hepworth Jessie Stephens is a Sydney-based writer and podcaster. She's the assistant head of content at Mamamia and co-host of the podcast Mamamia Out Loud. She also hosts Mamamia's True Crime Conversations and Book Club podcasts, where she's had the pleasure of interviewing some of her favourite authors. Heartsick is her first book. Fully Human A New Way of Using Your Mind Steve Biddulph Fully Human is world-renowned family therapist and multi-million bestselling parenting author Steve Biddulph's first personal development book for people of all ages, that will help us all live better, more fulfilling lives. A mother of small children avoids a murderer in broad daylight. A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song. And it saves his marriage. What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening those parts could finally solve the conflicts and sufferings we all go through? From the cutting edge, where therapy meets neuroscience, world-renowned author, psychotherapist and educator Steve Biddulph shows us how to reach into the deep feelings beneath our feelings, and how doing so can guide us to a more awake and free way of living every minute of our lives. Publication Date: 27/5/2021 Price: £14.99 In Fully Human, Steve Biddulph guides us through the four-storey mansion of our unexplored mind, with tips on how to open each level up to the sunlight, ISBN: 9781509884759 allowing us to live equally in all its beautiful rooms. Binding: Trade Paperback Format: Royal Drawing on deeply personal stories from his own life, as well as those of his Extent: 288pp clients, and from the frontiers of thinking about how the brain works with the Rights: World body, this culmination of a life's work uncovers how we can all be more alive, more connected. Material Available More Fully Human. Rights Sold Bulgarian: Colibri From the bestselling author of Raising Boys. Chinese (complex): Yuan-Liou Chinese (simplified): CITIC German: Droemer Knaur Spanish: Ediciones Urano Steve Biddulph is one of the world’s best known parent educators who Turkish: Nemesis Yayincilik Hizmetleri lectures worldwide on parenting, and boys' education. A psychologist for forty years, he is now retired but continues to write and teach. His books, including The Secret of Happy Children, Raising Boys, The New Manhood and 10 Things Girls Need Most are in four million homes and over thirty languages. They have influenced the way we look at childhood and especially the development of boys and men. Steve is one of a group of child development specialists in the UK and elsewhere who argued successfully for the introduction of parental leave. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling, Cairnmillar Institute, Melbourne, in March 2011, and is also a Member of the Order of Australia for his work in young people’s mental health. The Last Drop Solving the World’s Water Crisis Tim Smedley A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis – the scarcity of water. Water scarcity is the next big Climate Crisis. Water stress – not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution – is already driving the first waves of climate refugees. Rivers are drying out before they meet the oceans, and ancient lakes are disappearing. Fourteen of the world’s twenty megacities are now experiencing water scarcity or drought conditions. It’s increasingly clear that human mismanagement of water is dangerously unsustainable, for both ecological and human survival. And yet in recent years some key countries have been quietly and very successfully addressing water stress. How are Singapore and Israel, for example – both severely water-stressed countries – not in the same predicament as Chennai or California, but now boast surplus water? What can we learn from them, and how can we use this knowledge to turn things around for the wider global community? Publication Date: 15/9/2022 Price: £20 Do we have to stop eating almonds and asparagus grown in the deserts of ISBN: 9781529058147 California and Peru? Could desalination of seawater be the answer? Or Binding: Hardback rainwater capture? Are some of the wilder ‘solutions’ – such as the plan to Format: Royal tow icebergs to Cape Town – pure madness, or necessary innovation? Extent: 304pp Rights: World Award-winning environmental journalist Tim Smedley will travel the world to meet the experts, the victims, the activists and pioneers, to find out how we can mend the water table that our survival depends upon.